Even hip hop royalty like The Beastie Boys are not immune to spats over copyright issues, and on June 5 Reuters reported that the group has won $1.7 million in a lawsuit it filed against Monster Beverage Inc. in 2012.

In theory, current U.S. government policy allows for all information on the Internet to be given the same treatment by Internet service providers. But a controversial proposal on “net neutrality” was narrowly approved by the FCC on Thursday.

An important European ruling on May 13 has given citizens the green light in asking that their personal information be removed from the internet, search engine provider Google now needs to figure out how to handle an expected flood of requests asking for information to be removed from its engine.